Intel / AMD ? With 3D Studio Max ...

[undercover]

The computers we would have to build for the pc lab would have to work well with

Photoshop, Director, Authorware, Premire, Flash, Dreamweaver, 3dstudio Max, Bryce4, java builders and c+ builders, and the basic win2k programs like office and power point..

Premire is the program that uses digital video and u can mess with that .. now .. only thing that they want is a digital A/V input and export

Can AMD do these things? I heard that3D Studio Max will NOT work with AMD.

Help ......

 

[Bagheera]

3D Max will definetely work with AMD <i>and</i> I think AMD is actually faster with 3D Max. So if 3D Max is your primary concern, get AMD.

Edit: Look at the benchmark below (actually, look through the entire article if you have time. It gives you an overall review of what P4 and Athlon's strength and weakness are)

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010608/athlon1400-09.html

 

[PaveLow]

<< Can AMD do these things? I heard that3D Studio Max will NOT work with AMD. >>



3D Studio Max benchmark (Athlon vs. P4)

3D Studio Max works better with AMD.

 

[Adul]

You heard wrong. 3D Studio max will work just fine on an AMD system. Infact it runs faster on a AMD system the a higher clocked P4 system. But then some apps also run faster on a higher clock P4 system then they do a AMD system. You can do both pretty much equally well on either. With either platform doign much better on certain apps then others. It will come down to what you prefer, and what you budget vs needs are. A top of the line p4 system will run about the same as dual 1.2 MP athlon system. I would load tons of ram, in either platform, and maybe a nice fast scsi disk if you really have large rendering jobs.

 

[dullard]

Since both of the above links fail to include the faster P4 chips, try here. As Anandtech found, even the 2.0 GHz cannot beat the 1.4 GHz Athlon in 3D Studio Max

 

[Valnir]

Other than the A/V stuff, I know that an Amd system will do all the rest of that. As a matter of fact it will probably beat anything Intel based in most, if not all, of that stuff. Only question being the compilers. If your using the Intel enhanced plug-in, then the Intel system would be faster in those.

But as far as 3d Max until Discreet has a SSE2 enhancement, the Amd system will whomp down the Intel one.

 

[Mors]

3D Studio Max runs fine on Athlons. Check out this link to a benchmark of Athlons and P4's running 3D Studio Max.

 

[Thor_Sevan]

3DsMAX will run really much better on AMD systems. Every 3D, 2D or scientific programs will run MUCH faster on CPU's that have strong FPU performance (AMD). One of the most impressive example is Bryce 4.0. I remember... My Athlon 600 was rendering 2X faster than a P3 600 at that time !!!

For example, it took me 2 hours to render a simple scene while my friend's computer took 4 hours something. hehe.
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[KpocAlypse]

yupper, from what i heard as well the t-bird is one fast chip in 3D Studio max, gotta love that FPU....(my assumption on why it does so in the first place)

 

[dullard]

<< Every 3D, 2D or scientific programs will run MUCH faster on CPU's that have strong FPU performance (AMD). >>



I'd be quite cautious if I were you making these generalizations. The Athlon does quite well in some programs (such as 3D Studio Max) and quite miserably in others. For example my entire job involves running Computational Fluid Dynamics solvers (such as Fluent). For many scientific programs such as this, there is very little program branching and just lots of number crunching. Thus there is little branch misprediction penalty for the P4, and the program runs almost perfectly scaled with processor frequency. Basically a 1.4 GHz machine from Intel and AMD will run these scientific programs at almost the same speed. The result? A 2.0 GHz P4 is 40% faster than a 1.4 GHz AMD for my 3D scientific work. Here is one link you can explore to see different people's benchmarks.